Horses are Here to Bear People
Borne by Nature: Household Pets, Their Karma and Its Release, or Karmic Release for Pets, Conversations with Eon, Thursday, March 16, 1995 at Jones Library
Does anyone have a horse or a cow? A big animal?
I have a small pony.
Pony? Horse? Cow?
It’s grown up. It’s about forty. We’ve had him many years.
Yes. A pony, larger animals as we mentioned, the longer-lived animals don’t necessarily— aren’t more advanced and don’t have more to learn. But they learn harder. And for the equine animal species, lessons come very hard.
Their hearts are broken more frequently than many animals. They are more attached to humans than many animals, and more attached to each other. And they are also more attached to their other animal friends. And they are very sensitive. You would call them overly sensitive, and even annoyingly fragile, if they were human. They’d be the kind of person you have to tiptoe around, or they get upset.
This is what they are like in their relationships. They get very upset whenever anyone comes or goes. When they are content, it is fleeting. When they seem content, it is an illusion. But yet, they have chosen to come to this world, to be this way, to live this way to learn. And so, they must be taken seriously, even though, if they were fully visible to you in all this aspect, you would think they’re more trouble than they’re worth sometimes. But they’re not, are they?
They’re really wonderful. Horses are here to bear people, not just physically, but to bear their worries. To bear their happinesses. To carry a lot of things for them. And that’s one reason why they’re so fragile, because over the centuries and the millennia, horses have carried a great deal of human suffering and human triumph. They carry it in their soul, in their spirit. And they carry it communally, as though they're each holding one corner of a big net.
They carry all the human energy that’s chaotic in society. People are constantly spitting out sparks of energy, ideas, thoughts, greed, jealousies, envies, hatreds, loves, uncontrollable energy. People are very wild with their energy. That’s all got to go somewhere and horses and the equinous animals, they collect it. They hold it for you and they’re not afraid to do it. They do great service to people. Has this pony been ill?
Well, she’s getting old, and my daughter’s twenty-four and not interested anymore. She’s going to college. And we’ve had other girls work on her, but nobody’s there now, so I have to try to do it. You’re right, she doesn’t like little boys that would be interesting. She doesn’t like boys to have her. We’ve had her go to different houses. But my husband loves her more than anything. Maybe it’s because he never had one when he was a child. He always worked. He loves that little pet. He made her a house— a brick house.
Yes, good. Pamper the pet.
And she’s free, she’s free to go.
She should continue to be free.
Yep, right across the street, and sometimes— I know when she’s getting bored, when she goes in front of the trucks, you know. When she wants attention.
Yeah. Teeth are in good shape?
No, I don’t think they’re that good. I think at that age the ones in back, I think, that’s what they say how they can die if they get too long if they go through the roof of the mouth. We’ve had them braised but you know...
Hoofs?
She won a lot of prizes. She used to be very good.
Yes. Quality of the hoofs?
The hoofs, probably not very good at all.
Are they being regularly trimmed and cared for?
We can’t get anybody to come there. We have to take her so; I know I've got to get out there myself.
Ah, don’t agonize dear one. But yes, it is a chore that must be attended to when you can find the time and energy to do it. It should certainly be done. Good foot care, good pedicure. Everyone likes that.
I’d like to have a clean house.
Yes. Horses are not so concerned with clean house as with healthy feet and teeth. That’s more important to them. That’s a priority.
Well, she doesn’t dirty across the street over to my uncles, but she’ll do it everywhere else. My brother-in-law rather. She never does anything over there. She goes and knocks on the door when she wants apples. She’s got a personality. But she’s getting old.
You indulge her.
Um, no I don’t have the time. She comes to my front door. She knocks. We have a big house and she comes in. She can’t hurt it.
You indulge her.
I feel bad. I think she’s lonesome. We used to have some other big horses, but she always was trying to kick them. But then when they left, I think she felt bad. So, she’s got the whole thing, but I don’t think she wants it. She wants her friends, so she can be mean to them.
Yes, yes.